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A57327	Confirmation revived, and, Doom's-day books opened in two sermons, the one preach'd at Coventry before the Right Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, upon his first performance of confirmation in that city, June 23, 1662 : the other preach'd at Warwick before the Right Honourable the judges of Assize for that circuit upon the 2d of July next following / by John Riland.	Riland, John, 1619?-1673.; Riland, John, 1619?-1673. Doom's-day books opened.	1663 (1663)	Wing R1518; ESTC R26991	41,777	76

6th Chap. to the Hebr. ver 1 2. there treating of the principles of Christ's doctrine amongst the rest presently after Baptism we find mention of the laying on of hands whereby it is not to be doubted but this Solemnity was signified as Anselme upon this place Laying on of hands that is saith he Episcoporum in Confirmatione Neophytorum Ansel in Ep. ● Hebr. S. Cyprian his testimony you have heard already hear him also who was before him and whom he calls his Master Tertullian as he is worthily styl'd That great Depositary of Church-Antiquities Caro manus Tertullian Lib. de Resur impositione adumbratur ut anima Spiritu Illuminetur Imposition of hands saith he shades the Body that the Descent of the Spirit may Enlighten the Soul Which Solemnity as is judged was also received by our Saviour himself the Divine feet of the holy Dove descending and standing on his head being in Lieu of the Laying on of John Baptists hands or what other Creature he might have advanc'd to that honour Secondly It 's Sacredness and Solemnity Confirmation in the Primitive style is known by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the complete Consummation of a Christian Indeed for the esse of a Christian as Schoolmen speak we were Compleat by Baptism but for the Bene esse the Bettering of that being it was ever thought that Confirmation was very requisite In reference whereunto it had the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which made and Perfected other Christian mysteries In short so Sacred and Solemn a Rite this was ever held that so far as I can find the Christian was not accounted perfectly Consummated without it if he might have it But most desperate was the condition of all despisers Thirdly for the great Expediency hereof First if any Christian should have received a vain or improper name at the Font I think the Bishop has power to take Cognizance thereof and as he sees good to change it into one that is fitter and of a more Christian significancy Besides this hereby triall is made how Children and the younger sort have improv'd their time and what progress they have made in knowledge and practise of that doctrine which is according to godliness And therein also we take a view of the Care of the Natural and the Conscience of the Spiritual Parents in the discharge of their duties And in many other respects if duly perform'd and receiv'd it cannot suddainly be said of what advantage it would be to the truth and power of Religion In particular how would it stop the mouths of Anabaptists that fatal affliction of these Western Churches Insomuch as that Great Ornament of the English Church affirms Ad perenne Christi obsequium ●r Hammond c. Nothing in the world if well perform'd does more strictly and strongly Oblige a Soul to the perpetual Service of Christ Jesus but if miserably neglected or slightingly receiv'd Hinc magna pernitiosa pietatis dispendia c. Hence saith He arise those great and undoing Decayes in Christian Religion which have so far provoked Gods judgments upon us that no wonder it is to have such turnings and Over-turnings amongst us when Confirmation it self could not stand I should now in method proceed to the third generall Branch of this Tree i. e. the Fruitfulness thereof and therein consider it's Proportion Propriety and Tempestivity But what might grow upon this Branch the small allowance of time remaining has made it a kind of a Forbidden Fruit yet so that whereas Adam and Eve Tasted and the Eyes of them both were opened Gen. 3. 7. If you that have Freely Eaten of the Former should but Tast what grow's upon this Branch your Eyes might be shut and your Eares closed For as through an unavoidable longsomness in reference to my self The Daughters of musique would be brought low so I doubt Those that look out at your windows would be darkned and the Doors shut in the streets Therefore our Subject being a Fruit-bearing Tree lest the Immoderate Droppings thereof by a too tedious discourse should of Fruitfulness cause Barrenness as they say it will I shall here take leave of my former Road and make a short Turn toward you in a few words of Application wherein amongst other things I may speak somewhat of Fruitfulness in generall and so conclude Some we read have been perswaded to become Beasts that 's nothing any Circean Sensuality can do that yea many Souls can with too much easiness perswade themselves into such a Brutish Transformation God forbid I should attempt any such Metamorphosis as to Sollicite men to turn Bruits yet pray pardon me if I perswade men to turn Trees such Blessed ones as this Text yeilds Trees of Gods own planting In particular I beseech you all emulate Trees in these four properties their Straightness Firmness Unitedness and Fruitfulness First Straightness God never Plants but he Guards and Fences his young Plant from forein violence For that we may observe here our Tree is planted by the Water-side not by the way-side for then it would be apt to be wrencht and writhed by every Passenger And such is the Condition of our ordinary Hedge and High-way Christians that cannot endure any Retirement to the Rivers to Sit down and weep there as they did but presently cast themselves into any Company ●sal 137. mixt with any multitude and so carelesly expose themselves to the violent wrestings and distortings of every temptation whereby they lose their straightness and come for ever to be Crooked Souls The which quality as it has a natural but much more a Spiritual deformity so on the contrary the Straightness we now speak of is so Graceful and Becoming to a Christian that Christ himself is willing to be compared to an Arrow He hath made me a polished shaft A shaft for his Smoothness as well as Swiftness ●sa 49. 2. and as there it is for his Politeness no less than his Piercingness Not only as swift but as straight as an Arrow And as was the second so was also the first Adam at his first making Though the Rows of Eden stood all upright and even Not one Bow-backt plant in all Gods Orchard yet at first Adam himself was the Straightest Tree in all Paradise His Soul and body both pointed directly toward heaven according to that of Solomon God made man upright but they have Eceles 7. ●9 sought out many Inventions Him that Overcomes will I make a Pillar in the Rev. 3. 12. Temple of my God We know Pillars are upright and proper for Houses as there the Temple is God s house though any Bowed or Crooked Timber may happily serve in a Ship or Sea-vessel which will not serve at all in the Supporting of a house and those Rumpled pieces which will not be usefull for Pillars for those must be straight may yet be put into Plow-timber and such low kind

parties But that there is any such thing at all as a Resurrection of the body is deny'd by some upon these grounds whose Falshood and Weakness an Indifferent Eye may easily See through 1. That mans Happiness is attainable in This and therefore what Need is there of Another Life or of the Bodyes Rising in order thereunto thus Epicurus and the rest of that Herd There the Antecedent is false 2. If there be another Life and Happiness must be had there and there Only then it Concern's the Soul alone and so to what purpose should the body be Disturb'd which is so farre from Going Halfs with the Soul's Happiness that it Hinders It according to that Rule amongst them viz. That all Corporeity is an Enemy to Perfect felicity Thus Porphyrius and those of his way But here we say the Consequence is false and the Proof thereof from that Position of Porphyrie very infirm 3. That as all Spiritual things are of God so all Bodily things are from the Devil or such like Evil Principle and so cannot by a Resurrection be United to God that onely Good Principle Thus Manicheus and his Followers So that the Body is still Kept under and Held down on all hands all joyntly denying its Rising but upon Foundations you see full of Weakness Falshood or Blasphemy Again as Those Deny the Resurrection Others Affirm and Prove it 1. From the Rising again of Christ our Head 2. From the Natural tendency in Separted Souls toward a Re-union with the Body which must not be to no purpose 3. In that our Gain by Christ is greater than our Loss by Adam and therefore if In Adam all dye much more in CHRIST shall all Cor. 15. 22. be made alive By these and other Arguments of the Resurrection Some Affirm and Prove it We Affirm and Believe it yet if we would goe about to Prove it Arguments Come up as Thick as Grass-Spills in the Spring Demonstrations naturally Grow and Hang upon every Green Hedge yea Day unto Day utters Speech viz. of the Resurrection which clearly discovers it self in ●sal 19. 2. the Successive Dawnings thereof and most apparently Dwells upon the Eye-lids of Every Morning And as Day unto Day utters this Speech so Night unto Night shewes this Knowledge He that Lyes down has Slept out his Eyes and Senses who does not behold ●bid It Standing by his Bed-side when Ever he Arises So that although we doe Believe it yet as for that Credibile quia Impossibile i. e. 't is merely Credible because Impossible we need not Take Refuge in any such Unhallowed Sanctuary or Seek out so Shamefull a Covert for an Article of our Creed Concerning the Instantaneousness or Successiveness of This our Rising the Terminus A Quo and Ad Quem therein what is the Efficiency of GOD and wherein lyes the Instrumentality and Subserviency of ANGELS And because GOD say'd to Adam Dust thou art and to Dust thou shalt Return No doubt He has had time enough for That Returning yet whether or no Gen. 3. 19. He then Say'd so to All the Sons of Adam and that Every Body as well as His must Suffer a Perfect Pulverization yea that very Body which was Buryed but a Day or an Hour before the General Resurrection whether or no according to the aforesaid Sentence That must be Return'd into Entire Earth and so Arise out of as Complete a Bed of Dust as if it had layn as long as Adam a mouldring These and many other Niceties I purposely pretermit We must needs dye that 's Certain but that we are as Water Spilt on the ground which cannot be Gather'd 2 Sam 4. 14 up again c. there Ioab's Wise Widow speaks like one of Iob's Foolish Women For when we shall be Pour'd out by the Hands of Death and have Layn Soaking in the Earth never so many Centuryes yet God will assuredly Recover again and Gather up every Drop of This Water in which regard perhaps it was that they call'd Death A gathering unto their people Gen. 49. 33. This I verily believe however some may think otherwise that all those scattered parcels of the same body that lye sleeping in several Parishes perhaps in several parts of the World As for example Suppose a Souldier has Lost a Leg in Asia an Arme in Europe a Finger is Burnt in the Fire a Toe is Cut off and thrown into the Water Quid mirum toto si spargitur Orbe M●rtial Ep. why may nor the dead dust be a kind of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 free of the whole World as well as a Living body This I say that all those limbs and parts of the Dispersion aforesaid shall not only return Bone to its own Bone c. but every the least Grain of dust to that very Place it had in the body before its dissolution This I humbly conceive may most set forth the Wisdome and Power of God in that day which being styled a day of Restitution the way of Particular restoring which now we speak of methinks conduceth most to the fulness and exactness thereof For as the Loadstone can out of a common Heap of Dust Extract all the little Fylings of Steel or the like Much more is God Almighty able by His Magnetick skill out of the common Rubbish to Single forth the Minutest Fylings as it were of these our Mortal bodyes and Restore them all again to their proper places An Army I have heard of whose Souldiers had every one such peculiar Marks and Characters upon their Polyb. Shields that by help thereof their Commander could at any time easily recover them out of the greatest Disorder and Confusion The Lord knows them that are His and not so only but All that is Theirs notwithstanding 2 Tim. ●1 9. we are put to the greatest Rout and Disorder by Death yet such are Those privie Marks of God's wisdome upon us that in the Resurrection He will compleatly Ralley again all these Ruines of Mankinde Then though the Worms destroy this body yet in Job 19. 26. Eccles 12. 3. my Flesh and with these my Eyes shall I see God Though the Arms those sorry House-keepers have not kept themselves nor their House neither but the Fingers are stray'd from that Hand into which they were Engrafted and the Hands dropp'd from those Arms by which they were supported Though the Strong Men have bowed themselves so as to be trod upon by Base Vermin and the legs are run one from another yea though the Grinders themselves should be Grinded to pieces and They that formerly Look'd out at the Windows are now Leap'd out through those Windows and those Two great Luminaries which GOD had set up to give Light to this Lesser World have not only Consum'd themselves but their Sockets Yet in That Day of the Restitution of all things when the Great KING shall disperse and send abroad his Writs to Call that Last and General Convention of